Today’s passage: Job 30
Helpful thoughts:
- Job’s testimony now moves back into the present.
- Job used to help the needy, now the needy mock him.
- In the previous chapter, Job recounted his own willingness to help those who were in need. Now that he is the one in need, God seems unwilling to help him. Job wants to know why God appears to be acting unjustly.
Questions to consider:
- What can be true of earthly honor and prosperity? How firm and long-lasting are they? (Verse 15) If those who respected Job only did so as long as he helped them financially, what was the true nature of the “respect” they gave him? If we live to be pleasing to man, how hard will we have to try to stay in the world’s good favor?
- Is it wrong to ask God to be fair? What is often our view (Or the limitation of our viewpoint) to be able to discern fairness/justice? How does starting from the belief that God is perfectly just help us to pray correctly concerning our desire to see God act justly?
- What is the greatest appearance of injustice in history which brought about justice and provided for our eternal salvation?!?! (Romans 3:21-26)